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Wellington Rooms (Now the Irish Centre)

A Grade II* Listed Building in Central, Liverpool

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4039 / 53°24'14"N

Longitude: -2.9706 / 2°58'14"W

OS Eastings: 335565

OS Northings: 390117

OS Grid: SJ355901

Mapcode National: GBR 77P.DS

Mapcode Global: WH877.BPNV

Plus Code: 9C5VC23H+HP

Entry Name: Wellington Rooms (Now the Irish Centre)

Listing Date: 28 June 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208360

English Heritage Legacy ID: 359117

ID on this website: 101208360

Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, L3

County: Liverpool

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Liverpool

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: St Luke in the City Team

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description


SJ 3590 SE MOUNT PLEASANT
(north side)
L3

55/776 Wellington Rooms
(now the Irish
28.6.52 Centre)

G.V. II*


Club rooms. 1815 by Edmund Aikin. Built as a fashionable
private assembly room for the Wellington Club. Ashlar,
slate roof. Facade of one storey, without windows. Moulded
plinth and top entablature and parapet. Slight forward
break at each end with flanking Corinthian pilasters.
Sculptured plaques on the blank walls. In the centre is a
semi-circular projection with tetrastyle Corinthian attached
colonnade and antefixae over entablature. Portico
originally open, but soon filled in and present door added.
Interior has circular entrance hall, ballroom with relief
frieze, gilt swags and panelled walls etc, also upper rooms,
card room etc, some being octagonal - interior decoration
probably later C19. Relief frieze said to be by Flaxman.
Plain iron area railings, iron lantern on bracket over
entrance. Brick return facade with stone pilastrade.


Listing NGR: SJ3556590117

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